fracture

Massive pieces of floating ice can remain intact for years as they drift, then gradually fracture into smaller sections that may become difficult to track.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

“There’s a fracture inside the conservative movement with issues of foreign policy, and mostly Israel,” Spencer said.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

In Hadjar's case, the Frenchman suffered what Red Bull describe as a "minor fracture" while doing a boxing exercise which is part of his normal gym routine.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The wait could be longer for Pages, who underwent a minor surgery to repair the fracture in his left hand and is expected to miss at least four weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Now it made a noise in its throat like the crunching of bones or the sudden fracture of ice underfoot.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

It affects roughly one in three women over age 50 and is responsible for millions of fractures each year.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

North London area coroner Tony Murphy ruled her cause of death was bronchopneumonia caused by fractures to her rib and sternum fractures sustained in the crash.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Interferometric observations collected over Petermann Glacier in April revealed deformation and fractures within the floating ice tongue.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Their arrival will end the couple’s self-imposed exile in California, but won’t necessarily heal the fractures with the rest of the family that prompted them to leave the U.K. six years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Years later I found out I had sustained minor fractures to both feet.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

When Pogacar hit the asphalt, the damage was instant: a concussion, bruises and cuts to his face and shoulder, a fractured C7 vertebrae and a broken collarbone said to require surgery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday that experts had said "a glacier on the southern slope of Lirung Peak in Nepal" fractured, triggering an ice-rock avalanche.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

At the Women's European Championship that followed, Bronze was instrumental in England retaining the trophy, starting every game despite suffering a fractured tibia on the eve of the tournament.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

But Lowden went on to earn his fractured action-hero gravitas the hard way: summer classes at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and several years of stage work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Her eyes look fractured, like her mind is finally cracking from the weight of everything she’s just seen.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

They also revealed dislocations moving from the layer interfaces into the surrounding CoAl layers, helping explain how the material could deform without quickly fracturing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

Burning natural gas also causes significant air pollution in the form of nitric oxides, sulfur, mercury and particulates, while hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," can contaminate ground water supplies.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

The film also shows Maddox and her father in a vicious argument inside her car that illustrates the fracturing of their once-close bond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

But the fracturing of the British political system also has to do with new fault lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

The sound of solid iron fracturing was thunderous.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover